Week 15 - Final Comments!

Vis Com Final Comment:
best Picture Award!

Craft: The photo is clear especially with the water moving in the background it does not look blurry.

Composition:The way the picture was taken is really cool looking at you from behind. Then the word addition looks good because it fits the whole calmness of the picture.

Concept- I like the choice of words that were added to the picture. It is a nice finishing touch to a great picture. It works well together with the deep thought in the picture and then the deep quote!

Most Displayed Artwork Blog!

Craft- She used blogger and uploaded her photos she also had to make her pieces jpgs and make them small enough quality tthat they can be quickly loaded on the web.

Composition-She has pictures of not only herself, and her interests, but also of all the stages of her different artwork.

Concept- Her blog overall gives you a good understanding of her personality, her likes and dislikes, and finally her ability to make nice pieces of art. Not only does she show you her final piece she shows you what she started with as well.

Best Comic Display!

Craft- He used blogger and upload in order to post his comic on his blog. He created his comic on comic life and had to save it as a jpg and reduce the quality before being able to upload it.

Composition- I like the way he shows his comic in multiple blog entries, in his final blog entry, and as his link to his website.

Concept- The repetitiveness of the comic makes me believe he spent a lot of time on it and is proud of it. I like that he uses a motif throughout the blog.

Most attention getting blog!

Craft- The template is unique,she is the only one who has it. She added alot of pictures to the blog not only of herself but her interests as well.

Composition- The use of many different colors makes you think she is sparatic and fun, the repetition of basketball shows you what is important to her.

Concept- Her blog overall captures her personality and interests, it has pictures of her but she is not the center focus. The fonts and colors make it appealing and make you want to read what she has to say.

Best personality representing blog

Craft- I cheated a little bit because this was my roomate and I know her personality, but when I looked at this blog without seeing her name or picture I knew it was hers.

Composition- She chose the black background which makes her blue text really pop out at you. She then picked pictures of herself and things that represent her life and posted them as well.

Concept- It was interesting because in the pictures there is the same color blue which makes them fit perfectly, and then the aloha picture makes you think of the ocean blue and relaxing so everything fits nicely.

Final Blog

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Assignment: create a website about us and visual communications

We used I web to create our website.  We did a page about ourselves, and then a page highlighting our mashups and finally a page with our comics on it.

I made my pictures, some text, and a headline all hyperlinks linking to my blog or bigger versions of my pictures. 

I also added a link on my blog and in this post to my website so people can easily navigate back and forth. 

 

Assignment 12

Brittany Jones

Assignment: final comic

Craft: I made another box in order to have a box of a magnified view of the phone in the water, so that people could understand that he dropped his phone in his water.  I also added text boxes like captions.

Composition: People were having trouble understanding what was in the package, and what the point of the story was.

Concept:  This helped alot of people understand that the ups guys laziness ended in the death of someone, without the ups guy knowing it... It is infering that people should not be lazy and careless because we are not aware of all the consequences of our actions.

Week 12 blog

Assignment: Comic Life

Craft: I put my finished pictures into comic life and adjusted the background color, and the shapes of my rectangles.  

Composition:  I then added speech bubbles with text, and thought bubbles with thoughts.  Lastly I added expression statements such as splash and crash. 

Concept: The speech bubbles help the reader to understand what is going on, but I learned from our critique that I need to also add captions to give a better understanding of my point that I am trying to get across, which is we never know how our actions effect others. 

Week 10

Assignment: Comic color

Craft- By using layers and multiply we were able to use color over our pictures without covering the background details. 

Composition- I used a bright blue for the suit of my main business man character, a brown for the uniform of my UPS guy, and an orange that represented the cell phone which later became the package being sent.  This highlighted the 3 aspects we needed for our story/ the person bringing the package, the recipient, and the package

Concept- My concept is that the UPS guy is taking his time and goofing around not really worried about getting the packages out in a rush, while this laxidaisical quality of his results in a man crashing and not having a phone to call an ambulance and his inevitable death.  The irony is that the UPS guy does not know that he indirectly could have saved a man's life, and will never know the consequences of his actions.  It makes people think about how every thing they do can effect others in dramatic ways.

Week 7

Assignment:  Write a story including a traveler, someone waiting, and a package.

Concept: We go about our daily lives with our lazy habits not having any idea how our decisions effect other people.

Traveler: UPS man.

Waiter: Business man

Package: Cell Phone

Story:  A business man is impatiently waiting because his cell phone was broken and he was waiting for his replacement that he needed before he drove 20 hours for a business trip.  Unbeknownst to him, UPS is taking there time with the package, putting it off and thinking it is not that important.  Finally the day arrives for him to leave for the trip and he has no choice to do so without a cell phone.  As the man is driving at night of the first day, the UPS man is ringing his doorbell with the package in hand.   As this is happening the business man is startled and goes off into a ditch and down far into a forest and is trapped in his car.  The UPS man hops back in his truck and tosses the "unimportant" cell phone in the back, clueless that that cell phone could have saved the man dying in his cars life had it gotten there a little sooner.  He drives away whistling along to the radio as the business man says his last prayers and closes his eyes. 

Week 7

Assignment: Write a story that includes someone traveling, someone waiting, and a package. 

Concept: We go about our daily lives with lazy and laxidaisical